Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:35:30 -0700
To: "Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List":;
From: Zimbabwe Crisis
Subject: ZimCrisis#118 -- Appeal for Help for Kathy Olds
Hi everyone,
This is dated over a month ago, although I only received it in the last couple of weeks. Please assist if you can.
Craig
Saturday 1st July 2000
We expect you will have read or heard of Kathy Olds who has taken refuge here in England following the murder of her husband Martin in Zimbabwe.
Kathy and her two children Martine and Angus arrived here 4 weeks ago with nothing but what they could carry in their suitcases and since then they have been put up by Tim and Sue Gibbs in Gloucestershire who had been neighbours in Zimbabwe.
Temporary school arrangements for the children have been made in Gloucestershire and the hope is that the family will be able to remain in the area in the medium term so that they at least have some stability at this very sad time. Tim and Sue cannot, however, support the family indefinitely in their home and there will come a time soon when they have to move on. As things are at the moment they have nowhere to go and no money to rent and certainly not to buy.
We (James who knew Martin at school in Zimbabwe and Charles who is a solicitor in Suffolk) would like to help and have joined Bill Earle, a friend of the Gibbs family now retired and living in Cirencester, to see what we can do. Could you help too?
We reckon that we can support the family in Gloucestershire for at least a year until they get themselves back on their feet with between £20,000 and £25,000. This should be enough to pay for accommodation, food, etc., and possibly to help run a small car for getting to school and eventually, we hope, to help Kathy to find and keep a job (she has many years of experience as a legal secretary).
We would like to suggest to anyone interested in helping that £52.00 would be a suitable amount to contribute -- equivalent to £1.00 per week for a year -- although any greater or lesser contribution would of course be much appreciated. We are opening a bank account with Bill Earle and ourselves as joint signatories from which we would pay a monthly allowance to Kathy and one-off payments as and when necessary.
Please give us a hand -- it is not a great deal to ask and we've already been promised £1000 before this letter has even been sent. If you'd like to help, please forward a cheque to James at Red House Farm made out to 'Olds Family Fund'. Any queries, please call James on 01728 638627.
If anyone knows of a bungalow or a cottage near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, which won't 'break the bank', then please let us know. We are still looking for a place for Kathy to live.
May we suggest that Tesco vouchers would be very useful in the immediate future, so any contributions would be welcome. Book vouchers would also be helpful for the children.
If we succeed in getting this off the ground then we promise not to come back to you to ask for any further contribution.
Please do help if you can. Thank-you.
James Maberly and Charles Boscawen
Contact Address;
James Maberly
Red House Farm,
Dennington,
Woodbridge
Suffolk IP13 8AQ
United Kingdom
Tel; 01728 638627
Fax; 01728 638628
E-mail; jmab@themutual.net
Craig
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Brief list of helpful sites on the issue:
- Zimbabwe Crisis mailing list archives -- http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis
- Comprehensive news updates -- http://www.1freespace.com/beetee
- Offers of and requests for help for Zimbabweans -- http://pub9.ezboard.com/boffersofhelp
- Commercial Farmers' Union -- http://www.mweb.co.zw/cfu
- Movement for Democratic Change -- http://www.in2zw.com/mdc
- Zimbabwe Democracy Trust -- http://www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org
- BSAP Pursuit of Zimbabwean Criminals -- http://www.bsaphq.f9.co.uk
To: "Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List":;
From: Zimbabwe Crisis
Subject: ZimCrisis#118 -- Appeal for Help for Kathy Olds
Hi everyone,
This is dated over a month ago, although I only received it in the last couple of weeks. Please assist if you can.
Craig
Saturday 1st July 2000
We expect you will have read or heard of Kathy Olds who has taken refuge here in England following the murder of her husband Martin in Zimbabwe.
Kathy and her two children Martine and Angus arrived here 4 weeks ago with nothing but what they could carry in their suitcases and since then they have been put up by Tim and Sue Gibbs in Gloucestershire who had been neighbours in Zimbabwe.
Temporary school arrangements for the children have been made in Gloucestershire and the hope is that the family will be able to remain in the area in the medium term so that they at least have some stability at this very sad time. Tim and Sue cannot, however, support the family indefinitely in their home and there will come a time soon when they have to move on. As things are at the moment they have nowhere to go and no money to rent and certainly not to buy.
We (James who knew Martin at school in Zimbabwe and Charles who is a solicitor in Suffolk) would like to help and have joined Bill Earle, a friend of the Gibbs family now retired and living in Cirencester, to see what we can do. Could you help too?
We reckon that we can support the family in Gloucestershire for at least a year until they get themselves back on their feet with between £20,000 and £25,000. This should be enough to pay for accommodation, food, etc., and possibly to help run a small car for getting to school and eventually, we hope, to help Kathy to find and keep a job (she has many years of experience as a legal secretary).
We would like to suggest to anyone interested in helping that £52.00 would be a suitable amount to contribute -- equivalent to £1.00 per week for a year -- although any greater or lesser contribution would of course be much appreciated. We are opening a bank account with Bill Earle and ourselves as joint signatories from which we would pay a monthly allowance to Kathy and one-off payments as and when necessary.
Please give us a hand -- it is not a great deal to ask and we've already been promised £1000 before this letter has even been sent. If you'd like to help, please forward a cheque to James at Red House Farm made out to 'Olds Family Fund'. Any queries, please call James on 01728 638627.
If anyone knows of a bungalow or a cottage near Cirencester in Gloucestershire, which won't 'break the bank', then please let us know. We are still looking for a place for Kathy to live.
May we suggest that Tesco vouchers would be very useful in the immediate future, so any contributions would be welcome. Book vouchers would also be helpful for the children.
If we succeed in getting this off the ground then we promise not to come back to you to ask for any further contribution.
Please do help if you can. Thank-you.
James Maberly and Charles Boscawen
Contact Address;
James Maberly
Red House Farm,
Dennington,
Woodbridge
Suffolk IP13 8AQ
United Kingdom
Tel; 01728 638627
Fax; 01728 638628
E-mail; jmab@themutual.net
Craig
Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List
http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis
This is currently a manually administered mailing list. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send your request to DELETED. Personal requests for removal will be carried out immediately. Requests from governmental, political or press organisations (or their representatives) will be treated less favourably. The purpose of this list is not necessarily to redistribute published news reports. Rather, it is intended to distribute reports from or directly affecting people in Zimbabwe. If you have seen something before, I apologise. Hopefully that will not be a regular occurrence. Any reports from respondents that are relayed to the mailing list will be done so anonymously.
Brief list of helpful sites on the issue:
- Zimbabwe Crisis mailing list archives -- http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis
- Comprehensive news updates -- http://www.1freespace.com/beetee
- Offers of and requests for help for Zimbabweans -- http://pub9.ezboard.com/boffersofhelp
- Commercial Farmers' Union -- http://www.mweb.co.zw/cfu
- Movement for Democratic Change -- http://www.in2zw.com/mdc
- Zimbabwe Democracy Trust -- http://www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org
- BSAP Pursuit of Zimbabwean Criminals -- http://www.bsaphq.f9.co.uk
